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Reliquary vs Chasse - What's the difference?

reliquary | chasse |

As nouns the difference between reliquary and chasse

is that reliquary is a container to hold or display religious relics while chasse is reliquary.

reliquary

English

Noun

(reliquaries)
  • A container to hold or display religious relics.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1935, author=
  • , title=The Norwich Victims , chapter=4/1 citation , passage=“… There is an ivory virgin of the fourteenth century. I once found a buyer for that piece, but the old boy would not sell it.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2009, date=February 13, author=Holland Cotter, title=To Bump Off Art as He Knew It, work=New York Times citation
  • , passage=And whether you think of those little cans as intellectual puzzles or reliquaries or scams, there are surprises inside.}}
  • (label) An object that sustains the memory of past people or events.
  • chasse

    English

    Alternative forms

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    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (dance) A gliding movement in dance (especially ballet) with the same foot always leading.
  • Verb

  • To perform this step.
  • See also

    * sashay